online.wsj.com - 10/18/2009
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[U.K. Supreme Court] Associated Press Lord Phillips, center, and other justices of Britain's new Supreme Court outside their new building in London. Three U.S. Supreme Court justices -- Antonin Scalia, Stephen Breyer and Chief Justice John Roberts -- were on hand Friday to join in ceremonies ...
youtube.com - 10/18/2009
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Arrival of Queen Elizabeth II, meeting and greeting
with staffers & justices speeches by UK Supreme Court...
President Lord Nicholas Phillips and British Pr...
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Opening of UK Supreme Court (video)
howappealing.law.com - 10/12/2009
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howappealing.law.com —
C-SPAN's " Supreme Court Week " has posted
online the video and transcripts of its interviews with...
the other two active U.S. Supreme Court Justices: The following video clips and transcripts are now available online -- Originally aired Sunday, ...
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C-SPAN's "Supreme Court Week" has posted online the ...
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"A U.K. Court Without the Wigs; New Supreme Bench, Patterned on America's, Stirs Debate"
How Appealing —
"A U.K. Court Without the Wigs; New Supreme Bench, Patterned on America's, Stirs Debate": Cassell Bryan-Low and Jess Bravin have this article today in The Wall Street Journal. ...
Monday Round-up
SCOTUSblog —
... Over the weekend, the U.K. replaced Law Lords with a Supreme Court that is largely similar to the American system, and which was designed in part to provide greater accessibility to the British public. The Wall Street Journal describes the change in detail; it points to our own long tradition of drawing heavily on British legal precedent and suggests that the U.K. may now be, in Justice Breyer’s words, “taking a leaf from our book.” To honor the occasion, over which Queen Elizabeth II presided, Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia and Breyer cancelled their planned Friday ...
The New U.K. High Court: A Chip Off The New Block
WSJ.com: Law Blog —
Chalk one up for American legal exceptionalism.
The United Kingdom has rolled out a newly designed high court and it samples a few notes from our very own high court. Go, SCOTUS!
Heres a page-one story over the weekend from WSJ.
The U.K. this month replaced its Law Lords ─ a committee of noblemen that served as the highest tribunal for much of Britain ─ with the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Beyond the name similarities, the new U.K. court is fully separated, American-style, from Parliament and its legal ...
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